Painting Forever! is a cooperation of Berlinische Galerie, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Nationalgalerie -Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. For the launch of this cooperation project, initiated by the Berlin Senate, the four institutions involved have chosen painting as the focal point for the first year of this collaboration, which is to be continued in the future. The title of the project is Painting Forever!

KW's contribution to the cooperation, Keilrahmen ("stretchers"), is a collection of more than 70 pieces by contemporary painters who work or have worked in Berlin. The exhibition, curated by Ellen Blumenstein, offers insights into questions and topics being addressed in painting today and examines the meaning and significance of the medium of painting for contemporary art along with the potential it harbors.

The exhibition includes contributions from both established and emerging artists, some of whom are exhibiting for the first time in an institution. The works address topics that are genuinely specific to painting, such as light and composition, but also investigate the materiality of painting and explore the possibilities panel painting offers. Diverse interpretations of painting are represented and brought into conversation with one another.

Painting Forever!
Since the end of the 19th century at the latest, painting has played an extremely important role on an institutional level. Through the medium of painting, the city has also brought forth experimental artistic approaches, including the Berlin Secession, the New Objectivity and the Neuen Wilden (Young Wild Ones).

The individual and group presentations of the four exhibition formats of the Painting Forever! partners will demonstrate various approaches to the medium: installation-based and location-specific approaches will play a role, as will classical concepts of painting. The exhibitions are based on various artistic and curatorial positions and, despite their diversity, all address the question of what painting can and wants to be today.

Painting Forever! combines both young, contemporary positions with already established artists and artists' groups and also explores historical references. The individual locations of the overall project Painting Forever! are to be understood as complementary elements, yet, at the same time, as discrete exhibitions that can be experienced individually.

To accompany the exhibition project, a four-volume publication will be released for the joint opening in September 2013.

4.11.13, 15 h / 6.11.13, 18 hRahmenräumung
Performative tour through the exhibition; a project by Heinz-Brandt-Schule and a7. außeneinsatz as part of the model program Kulturagenten für Kreative Schulen.

7.11.13, 20 hFF-Forma
An evening with the artists of ff an friends.
Fee: 3 €
German/English

Malen Mal Vier
A four-day workshop for kids at the age of 12 and older by Barbara Antal.
Produced and realized in collaboration with Jugend im Museum e.V.
Fee: 40 €
Register until September the 30, 2013 at info@jugend-im-museum.de, T: +49 30 266 42 22 42